Faculty Details

Dr. G. Vishnuvarthanan, is currently working as an Associate Professor, for VIT- Bhopal University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in the Division of Data Science of School of Computing Science and Education. He has completed his B.E. in Instrumentation Control and Engineering by 2003, followed by M. Tech. In Electronics and Communication Engineering by 2009 and had been awarded a Doctoral Degree in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering for the thesis titled “Tumor Detection and Tissue Segmentation in Multimodal MR Brain Images Using Fuzzy and Optimization Techniques” by 2015. He has a total fourteen years of teaching experience in the three different reputed and premier engineering institutes of Tamil Nādu. With more than 100 journal paper publications, to till date he has published 31 international journals indexed in Science Citation Index Database with the highest impact factor publication of 17.560 and an average impact factor of 4.923. His significant research traits are the publications in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (of Impact Factor: 12.253), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (of Impact Factor: 11.648) and Information Fusion, Elsevier. He has authored and co-authored 70+ conference papers indexed in the SCOPUS database. He has even published two Scopus indexed Book Chapters. He has been the Co-Principal Investigator for the funded project worth of Rs.28,40,000/- sanctioned by DST under the TDP scheme, of title “Non-invasive sonometer along with clinically practiced DEXA images for estimating Bone Mineral Density for Osteoporosis detection in elderly women” for a duration of 24 months. He has submitted 4 patents till today and out of these two patents have been provisionally accepted. He has successfully supervised the doctoral thesis of 5 candidates till now. He has been the reviewer for fourteen journals till now, and few are - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Current Medical Imaging and Reviews, Neural Processing Letters. He has been a certified reviewer of three journals, namely Computers in Biology and Medicine, Applied Soft Computing and OPTIK. He has been a member of Technical Program Chair (TPC) for Cyber-Diagnosis in “International Conference on Cyber-living, Cyber-syndrome and Cyber-health, Beijing, during 2019. He has been the technical Program Co-Chair in the organizing committee for the International Conference on Multimedia Learning and Enhanced Learning (ICMTEL) organized by the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) during 2020. He has been a Guest Editor for the Special Issue entitled \"Object Detection in Diagnostic Radiological Imaging\" under the Journal name “Diagnostics” published by MDPI for the year 2023. He has been into the processes of preparation and submission of NAAC Self-Assessment Report (SAR) in 2015 and 2023. He has vivid experience as a Program coordinator for the Biomedical Engineering Program during the ABET onsite visit by 2019. He has recently won the Best paper award for the year of 2022 by Information Fusion, Elsevier, of title “Covid-19 classification by FGCNet with deep feature fusion from the graph convolutional network and convolutional neural network”. He is certified by the Business English Certificate – Cambridge University in B1 level. He has finished four NPTEL online certification courses, among which for three, he has been awarded Elite Certifications. His areas of interest include Medical Image Processing, Biomedical Instrumentation, Power Plant Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Marine Electro Technology, Digital Electronics, Medical Physics and Signal Processing. He has specialized in Medical Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition.